New Sacred Cow

New Sacred Cow
Studio album by Kenna
Released	June 10, 2003
Length	52:29
Label	Columbia CK 86959
Producer	Kenna Chase Chad
Kenna chronology
New Sacred Cow (2003) The Black Goodbye EP (2007)
Singles from New Sacred Cow
"Hell Bent" Released: August 31, 2001 "Freetime" Released: April 22, 2003 "Sunday After You" Released: December 14, 2004

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Prefix Magazine	(3/5) [2]
PopMatters	(Favorable) [3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
Slant Magazine	[5]

New Sacred Cow is the debut studio album by Kenna, released on June 10, 2003, by Columbia Records. The album was produced by Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and Kenna. ^[6] Kenna created something of an underground buzz with the release of his first single "Hell Bent" in 2001. The album was leaked to the internet over a year before its final release, as it was delayed by record company politics. "Freetime" was chosen as the single to lead off the release of the album. A video was shot, and appeared sporadically on MTV2 along with the video for "Hell Bent". "Freetime" peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. In late 2004, "Sunday After You" was remixed by Chad Hugo and released as a single. The single version differs greatly from the album version.

Track listing

New Sacred Cow

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Within Earshot"	Kenna Chad Hugo	Kenna Chase Chad	1:20
2.	"Freetime"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	3:23
3.	"Man Fading"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	4:05
4.	"Sunday After You"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	4:16
5.	"Vexed and Glorious / A Better Control"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	6:13
6.	"Red Man"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	3:39
7.	"Hell Bent"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	4:53
8.	"Yeneh Ababa (Rose)"	Kenna	Kenna	3:13
9.	"War in Me"	Kenna	Kenna	5:20
10.	"New Sacred Cow"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	4:01
11.	"I'm Gone"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	3:54
12.	"Siren"	Kenna Hugo	Kenna Chad	3:38
13.	"Love/Hate Sensation"	Kenna	Kenna	4:34
Total length:				52:29

Release and reception

On the CD, "Vexed and Glorious" and "A Better Control" are placed on the same track, as a hidden interlude. "Yeneh Ababa (Rose)", "War in Me", and "Love/Hate Sensation" were produced by Kenna alone, and all others were with Chad Hugo.

Promo copies of "New Sacred Cow" surfaced over a year before the album's release, with a slightly different track order. The song "Siren" didn't appear until the official release of the album.

A music video to the stop motion short film More to the song of "Hell Bent" was aired on MTV2 in 2001, and the Toonami Midnight Run. It was created and directed by one of the future directors of Kung Fu Panda , Mark Osbourne. ^[7]

Personnel

• Kenna – Keyboards, Vocals, Writing, Producer, Logos And Illustration
• Chad Hugo – Keyboard, Saxophone, Writing (tracks: 1–7, 10–12)
• Chad Hugo (as Chase Chad) – Producer (tracks: 1–7, 10–12)
• David Davidson – Strings
• Ethan Johns – Bass (New Scared Cow)
• John Haynes – Engineer
• Matt Pinfield – A&R
• Otto Price – Bass (Red Man, War In Me)
• Pui Tse – Logos and Illustration
• Sean Murphy – Photography
• Serban Ghenea – Engineer, Mixing ^[8]

References

1. Love, Bret. "New Sacred Cow". Allmusic . Retrieved March 10, 2012.
2. Umile, Dominic (March 5, 2008). "Album Review: Kenna – New Sacred Cow". Prefix Magazine. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
3. Potts, Ryan (September 4, 2003). "Kenna: New Sacred Cow". PopMatters . Retrieved March 10, 2012.
4. Rolling Stone review
5. Cinquemani, Sal (June 8, 2003). "Kenna: New Sacred Cow". Slant Magazine . Retrieved March 10, 2012.
6. "Kenna – New Sacred Cow (2003, CD)". Discogs .
7. "Mark Osborne". IMDb .
8. "Kenna – New Sacred Cow". Discogs .